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Fast-fashion retailer Shein has been designated under the EU’s online platform rules as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) due to a soaring number of European users, the European Commission said today (26 April). The Singapore-based website will face stricter requirements under the EU's Digital Services Act — and must adopt specific measures to protect users' well-being, and monitor illegal activity such as counterfeit goods. Shein now has over 45 million monthly users within the bloc and will have to comply within four months, so by the end of August, the commission said. The company, founde...
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The European Commission today (24 April) opened infringement procedures against Estonia, Poland and Slovakia because they have not yet designated their Digital Services Coordinators, the national regulators needed under the EU’s platform regulation. The deadline for establishing these watchdogs – who are the online platform's main point of contact in helping the European Commission with collecting evidence on implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – was 17 February. In addition, Cyprus, Czechia and Portugal also received a formal Commission letter because they did not empower their r...
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TikTok is subject to a second probe under the Digital Services Act (DSA) over the launch of its TikTok Lite app in France and Spain, the European Commission said today (22 April). The Commission will investigate whether TikTok’s policy is in line with the DSA and if it conducted a risk assessment prior to rolling out the functions, and whether it took measures to mitigate the risks. Through TikTok Lite, users over 18 years old can earn points under a so-called “Reward Program”, while performing certain tasks on the app, such as watching videos, liking content, following creators or inviting fr...
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Meta, TikTok, X and other online platforms have been invited by the European Commission to stress-test election guidelines next Wednesday (24 April). The test, which is voluntary, will help prepare the platforms for the European elections in June, a Commission spokesperson told Euronews. The elections guidelines were published by the EU executive last month under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) to help very large online platforms and search engines to mitigate risks that may impact the integrity of elections and their services. All very large platforms and search engines — online platforms...
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Online platforms should give users a real choice when implementing so-called “consent or pay” models, which allow users to pay a fee in exchange for ad-free access to the platform, an opinion by the EU’s data protection authorities said today (17 April). “The models we have today usually require individuals to either give away all their data or to pay. As a result most users consent to the processing in order to use a service, and they do not understand the full implications of their choices,” Anu Talus, chair of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in a statement. The opinion, draft...
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Chinese owned social media platform TikTok has 24 hours to submit a risk assessment to the European Commission on its new TikTok Lite app, which it launched in France and Spain this month, the EU executive said in a statement today (17 April). Through TikTok Lite, users over 18 years old can earn points under a so-called “Reward Program”, while performing certain tasks on the app, such as watching videos, liking content, following creators or inviting friends to join. These points can be exchanged for rewards, such as Amazon vouchers, gift cards via PayPal or TikTok's coins currency. The Commi...
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Amazon must comply with EU platform rules that require the company to set up a public ad repository, pending the outcome of a substantive appeal of its designation by the EU executive under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said in a statement today (27 March). The US tech company last year appealed a European Commission decision that designated Amazon as one of the Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) under the DSA. This would require Amazon Store to make a repository containing detailed information on its online advertising publicly available. Amazon tried to...
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The European Commission has begun an investigation into Chinese online marketplace AliExpress, owned by the Alibaba Group, on suspicion of breaches of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU executive said in a statement today (14 March). The probe focuses on mitigation of risks, to content moderation and the internal complaint handling mechanism, as well as transparency of advertising and recommender systems, the traceability of traders and to data access for researchers, the commission’s statement said. The company might not have taken enough measures to prevent dissemination of illegal conte...
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Online marketplace Temu, operated by Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings, has received additional questions about its business related to the Digital Services Act, the Irish Digital Services Coordinator told Euronews. Temu, which first launched in the US in 2022, has its European headquarters in Ireland. A spokesperson for the Irish authority – Coimisiún na Meán – which is responsible for the country’s oversight of the Digital Services Act, said that Temu is part of the agency's sweeping review of companies in the scope of the EU’s platform rules. "Coimisiún na Meán is currently contacting...
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The European Commission today (21 February) launched a new round of discussions on the future of digital networks, presenting a paper paving the way for a new telecom law for the next mandate. One of the twelve possible scenarios mentioned in the whitepaper is easing the environment for European telecom companies to operate more easily across EU borders. The paper, a leak of which Euronews reported on last week, sets out some options for the bloc’s digital infrastructure and examines how to address problems with connectivity, spectrum and investment, as new technological applications require m...
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